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• Dubai Civil Aviation Authority has suspended all operations of Air India Express to operate across all airports till 2 October
• The airline was found to have carried COVID-19 infected passengers on board of its flight to the Gulf nation on 4 September, the regulator said

Dubai Civil Aviation Authority has suspended all operations of Air India Express—the no-frill subsidiary of national carrier Air India Ltd—to operate across all airports in the country till 2 October after the airline was found to have carried covid-19 infected passengers on board of its flight to the Gulf nation on 4 September.

As per a correspondence routed to the aircraft’s territorial administrator of Gulf, Middle East, and Africa locale on 17 September, Dubai’s Civil Aviation Authority expresses that it is suspending the carrier’s activity in Dubai for a fortnight beginning 18 September as the air transporter disregarded set down conventions via conveying Coronavirus tainted traveler for the subsequent time.

“Loading up a traveler with Coronavirus positive test result for the subsequent time, is in opposition to and is infringing upon the set down methods or potentially conventions identified with air travel to and from air terminals in the Emirate of Dubai, during the COVID SARS Cov. 2 pandemic,” the correspondence from Dubai’s flying controller said.

“Subsequently, all activity of Air India Express to Dubai Airports is incidentally suspended, for a term of 15 days, compelling from 00:01 hrs on Friday 18 September 2020 until 23:59 hrs of 2 October 2020,” it said.

“Notwithstanding the suspension of activity, you will be additionally told to pay all the use caused by the particular experts for clinical administrations as well as an isolate of any passenger(s) and different travelers in the flight and furthermore some other use associated thereto,” it included.

The Kochi-settled aircraft has likewise been approached to present a point by point remedial activity plan or usage methodology to keep such occurrences from happening again for resumption of its trips to Dubai.

A duplicate of the correspondence has been evaluated by Mint.

A senior Air India Express authority said that the aircraft will redirect its Dubai-bound trips to Sharjah during the suspension time frame.

“The carrier has apologized to the common flying authority of Dubai for the lamentable episodes,” the authority said mentioning namelessness.

The most recent episode of suspension of Air India Express’s activity in Dubai comes a month after one of the aircraft’s Boeing 737 jetliners taking 191 individuals from Dubai slipped away a wet runway while arriving at the Kozhikode air terminal in Kerala. The airplane collided with a gorge, breaking into two and leaving 17 individuals, including the two pilots, dead and a few fundamentally harmed.